Auctioneers

Anti-slavery objects are enjoying a particularly strong moment in the market.

Three former Chiswick Auctions’ picture specialists have joined west London saleroom Olympia Auctions.

A record for Peranakan or Straits Settlement porcelain was set at an auction in Singapore when a Guangxu kamcheng took Sin$74,000 (£46,000).

Copies of the 1615 reprint of the Geneva or ‘Breeches’ Bible are not too scarce.

Specialist buyers turn out in force to bid for rusty ‘warts and all’ weapons amassed by dealer-collector

Roman dodecahedra continue to baffle after more than two-and-a-half centuries of study.

Works by Mr Brainwash (b.1966) are becoming an increasingly common sight at auction.

A selection of militaria with solid Sussex interest appeared at Lewes saleroom Wallis & Wallis (22% buyer’s premium).

Allen Jones (b.1937) is regarded as one of the pioneers of early British pop art.

A pair of militaria highlights related to Irish regiments that came up in recent auctions.

While London gun-makers featured heavily – and lucratively – at Gavin Gardiner’s (25% buyer’s premium) auction of Modern & Vintage Sporting Guns on December 14, provincial makers also got a look in.

Key artists in the American pop art movement such as Roy Lichtenstein (1923-97) and Andy Warhol (1929- 87) make big ticket prices.

Numerous works by Henry Williamson including fascinating inscriptions and annotations were offered in Chichester saleroom

Right at the top of the price lists for a London sale of a second portion of the library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Earl Fairhaven, was a lot that presented a handsomely bound collection of 15 very fine watercolour on vellum drawings of flowers.

A rare Second World War helmet worn by members of a little-known unit of the UK home front comes for sale at Sworders on February 7.

Among the graphic works on offer in Thomaston Place’s Winter Enchantment sale in Maine on February 24-26 are these two prints by Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.

Signed presidential and other politically significant documents and letters brought high bids at a Heritage (15/20/15% buyer’s premium) sale, but more costly than those lots was this photograph of Marilyn Monroe.

The auction at Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) on December 15 included two presentation first editions by Sylvia Plath.

Birmingham-born Roy Elvis (1944- 2022) inherited his family interest in antiques and started collecting furniture and decorative arts from an early age.